After a close encounter with a humpback. It happened during a lab assignment for a new oceanography course at the Hawaii Community College U-H Center in West Hawaii. About a dozen students and instructors were collecting water and plankton samples when they spotted the whale four miles off the Kona coast. "IT WAS PLAYING WITH US TODAY. IT STARTED GOING UNDER OUR BOAT. IT'S, IT WAS JUST, IT DIDN'T GO DOWN FOR A WHILE, AND WE JUST GOT A LOT OF GOOD PICTURES." This is the first year the Introduction to Oceanography Lab has been